His name is routinely prefixed by the titles Young General or Our Commander.

My job as the next commander-in-chief is going to be [to] make a decision: what is the right war to fight and how do we fight it?

But the president's role as commander in chief cut two ways.

Thompson also argues that his background as a lawyer and senator makes him uniquely qualified to be commander in chief.

The supreme commander had then to decide whether he would trust the forecast or order a further postponement of the operation.